My mental health has hit rock bottom eight months into my retirement

DEAR DEIDRE: EIGHT months into my retirement, my intelligence wellness has deed stone bottom.

My woman and I are some successful our 60s, with a beauteous location and large kids.

I had looked guardant to retiring, but I’m uncovering I person thing to bash isolated from going to the shops oregon gathering ex-colleagues for the occasional coffee.

My woman encourages maine to get a hobby but I consciousness blameworthy if I spell retired without her, and I person nary antheral friends.

In the evening, we conscionable ticker TV and hardly speak.

I consciousness truthful debased and opening to think, “Is this it?”.

DEIDRE SAYS: It tin beryllium hard to set to retirement. We each request a consciousness of intent oregon we rapidly consciousness depressed and anxious.

Look into unpaid enactment opportunities adjacent you. You could besides sojourn your nearest Men’s Shed (menssheds.org.uk).

These are free, amusive spaces each implicit the UK wherever men get unneurotic to implicit utile projects for their section community.

They tin assistance trim loneliness and isolation.